FEES OF OFFICERS 1619

For prosecuting or defending any cause in any of the orphans'

courts in this State.....................................$10 00

For prosecuting or defending any cause in the court of appeals... 10 00

For prosecuting or defending in any criminal cases in any of the
courts of this State having criminal jurisdiction, when the pun-
ishment for the offense charged is death or confinement in the
penitentiary .......................................... 10 00

In all other criminal cases................................. 5 00

The levy of an appearance fee in a criminal case under this section is no reason
for failing to levy under art. 26, sec. 8. Worcester County v. Melvin, 89 Md. 43.

An attorney for an assignee of a mortgage is not entitled to a fee for selling mortgage
property under a power of sale, without application to the court. Ruley v. Hyland,
77 Md. 488.

Cited but not construed in Goldsborough v. Lloyd, 86 Md. 375.

As to attorneys at law and attorneys in fact, see art. 10.

Bailiffs.

An. Code, 1924, see. 11. 1912, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1867, ch. 250.

1882, ch. 340.

11. Every bailiff attending the circuit courts in the counties in this
State shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each
day he shall attend the said courts, and upon the certificate of the clerks
of said courts stating the number of days that the said bailiffs have at-
tended the said courts the county commissioners of the several counties
shall levy for the use of said bailiffs the amounts that may be due them.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to Baltimore county.

Clerks of Courts.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 12. 1912, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12. 1846, ch. 292.

1852, ch. 308, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 341, sec. 6. 1876, ch. 363. 1892, ch. 222.

1920, ch. 443. 1929, ch. 427.

12. The Clerk of the Court of Appeals, the Clerks of the Circuit.Courts
and the Clerks of the Courts of the City of Baltimore may charge the fees
herein allowed for the performance of their respective duties, to wit: For
filing any paper, or thing, required to be fixed,¹ and entering the same on
the docket or minutes of court to be charged but once, five cents; for
docket entry of any judgment or decree, twenty-five cents; for entering
the naturalization of an alien with certificate under seal, including all
oaths taken thereon, fifty cents; for entering the declaration of intention of
an alien to become a citizen with certificate under seal, and all oaths taken
thereon, fifty cents; for granting any license of any kind, fifty cents; for
taxing the costs in any suit or proceeding, to be charged but once, fifteen
cents; for a transcript thereof with the items thereof, at large when de-
manded, to be charged to any person requiring the same, ten cents; for
every search for matter above a year's standing, however remote the period
may be, if found, fifteen cents; for affixing the seal to every paper, or
thing when required, except writs and process, ten cents; for issuing writs
or process of any kind under seal for every ten words and so pro rata, one
and one-quarter cents; for issuing summons for witness, including the
names of all witnesses applied for at the time, fifteen cents; for issuing
summons for witness duces tecum, twenty cents; for short copy of judg-
ment not under seal, fifteen cents; for transcribing the docket entries in

¹ "Filed" evidently intended.